Hypospadias questions!

My DS (dear son) was born this morning, and the pediatrician diagnosed him with mild hypospadias. I have no experience or knowledge about this and would like to know any info or suggestions or stories you ladies may have! Is this common?!

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I saw multiple cases when I worked pediatric inpatient, however it really depends on how bad it is (where is the urethra opening). You should get a list of questions and have a long sit down with your Pediatrician and a pediatric urologist.

My oldest had it along with a slight chordee (spelling?).
He had to have surgery at 9 months to fix it. He is now a perfectly normal/formed almost 15 year old.
It's actually more common than you would think. And there is no cause for it. It just happens. Ranges from mild to severe and if it needs corrective surgery they use the foreskin to help shape the urethra.
You would never know my oldest had this issue at birth.
Big hugs and congrats on a healthy baby boy!

My oldest had it along with a slight chordee (spelling?).
He had to have sur...

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07/23/2015

My oldest had it along with a slight chordee (spelling?).
He had to have surgery at 9 months to fix it. He is now a perfectly normal/formed almost 15 year old.
It's actually more common than you would think. And there is no cause for it. It just happens. Ranges from mild to severe and if it needs corrective surgery they use the foreskin to help shape the urethra.
You would never know my oldest had this issue at birth.
Big hugs and congrats on a healthy baby boy!
I had my newest baby on Monday. Also a boy!

Thank you for sharing! They didnt say where the opening is just that he was a mild case and we are to monitor his stream when he pees. I will look when I get to change his first diaper and find out how off his direction is. Its been bothering me since they told me because I wasn't sure if anything I did would have caused it. I feel bad that he may have to have corrective surgery

My oldest had it and they corrected it with surgery at 11 months. Like previously stated, they used the foreskin to correct the urethra. The surgery was done by a pediatric urologist in about an hour, and he was recovered within a day. Seriously! He acted like his normal self within 24 hours. He's 8 now and you can't even tell there was an issue.

My son was diagnosed with mild hypospadias. We couldn't even really tell that it was off though. The doctor waited to do his circumcision until he was 6 months old that way they could correct the hypospadias at the same time but when he went in for his circ the doctor said that it wasn't bad enough for correction anymore. He's 3 1/2 now and sometimes it seems like his pee stream does veer off to the side a little bit.

my sons isnt very bad, instead of being at the tip its positioned mor toward the bottom area of the tip but its not very far off from where it should be but his fore skin on the underneath isnt formed all the way though and they said once hes a little older it wont take much correction to fix him up, he pees just fine but they said they still will do minor correction for him just for cosmetic reasons, so it wont bother him later in life

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